Sen. Rockefeller speaks of anger at lack of US FAA funding bill

Passage of the FAA Reauthorization bill remains unlikely and another agency shutdown is not out of the question, the US Senate’s transportation committee chair warned Monday.

Passage of the FAA Reauthorization bill remains unlikely and another agency shutdown is not out of the question, the US Senate’s transportation committee chair warned Monday.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) used an address at the Aero Club of Washington to make clear his anger and frustration that a long-term FAA funding bill is stalled in the House with little prospect of it being passed.
The aviation industry shares the blame for the stagnation, he said, because people in the ...